Cold Cold Night (and morning)

LaPorte, IN. Where the average temperature this month has been below zero, and the snow fall has been ridiculously high! Why do I live here?

I especially asked myself this question early this morning when I woke up freezing in my bed, wrapped in all the blankets. Usually by 4 am neither Randy or I are really covered up, our room keeps heat very well. This morning was a different story. This morning was a reminder of one week ago, when we woke up the same way. Our furnace wasn't on...and its the middle of January, in LaPorte, In, in the middle of a lot of snow that still isn't melting.

Last week, we had issues with our water heater, and in trying to fix it, had shut off the power to the outlets in the basement - this included our furnace. Well, in frustration we left it alone for the night, still not having fixed the water heater, and of course, forgetting we had turned the furnace off. We woke up to the house being 44 degrees at 7am on Saturday morning. After realizing what happened, Randy turned the furnace back on, and within 3 hours (10am) we were almost back up to 68 degrees.

This morning we woke up freezing again. Only this time, our furnace was still initiated and "supposed" to be working. 46 degrees. It was 46 degrees in our house and our furnace was "supposedly" working. Turns out it is so stinking cold outside, our intake pipe froze. In turn, our furnace had no way of pulling air in to warm so it was shutting itself off. Randy ended up going outside and banging on the intake pipe (with what, I don't want to know) and this allowed the snow buildup and ICE! to be broken off, allowing air to flow again. Thank God for all of our knowledgeable friends!

So needless to say, in addition to our water heater not working last weekend, and our furnace not working all night (the most important part of the day), we also are having some electrical issues with some lighting in our kitchen. Someday we will make it through a week/weekend without having something going craxy on us! I just don't know if we'll be young enough to enjoy it! :)